Everything from your smartphone to the Nissan Leaf in the parking lot is powered by rechargeable Lithium-ion batteries, in which lithium ions move from the negative electrode to the positive one during discharge and vice versa when charging. However, they come with a lot of disadvantages…

Overheating, long charging times, limited power density, relative short lifetime and the fact they are not 100 percent recyclable are their major setbacks. But these will soon disappear when the new carbon-based battery will replace them.

The concept of a battery made using carbon dates back from the 70s, but starting around 7 years ago Power Japan Plus started to improve the idea and now are presenting us the “Ryden” (‘god of thunder’ in Japan) disruptive carbon battery.